TheOfficeCubicle
Repository of stupid computers errors that I deal with on a daily basis…

Western Digital Live Hub – WD Live – BMK Files The BMK files you see in your WD Live Hub are resume points or bookmarks. When you play a movie that has a .BMK file, it will ask you want to resume or restart. You can safely remove the .BMK files.  When a BMK file is [...]

IPsec.sys infected – TDSKILLER won’t remove rootkit So TDSKILLER was unable to remove a rootkit that infected ipsec.sys.  After a quick Google search, I found my answer.  I had to run SFC /SCANNOW. Here’s how to do it: Open the command prompt Type sfc /scannow in the command prompt and press enter (there’s a space between sfc and /scannow) [...]

Here’s a Windows quick tip if you ever need to open add / remove program from the command line. Bring up the command prompt or the run field and type appwiz.cpl I’ve ran this as administrator many times without needing the user to log off/on their computer. See the Images below!    

IE – Internet Explorer crashes when typing in Google search bar / Disable Google autocomplete I’ve noticed this problem for a while but recently it’s been annoying. Annoying to the point that I decided to look for a fix. Maybe it will help you. Problem: IE (Internet Explorer) crashes when typing a certain letter/letters in [...]

I’d like to think I’m a tech geek but the truth is a complete 180. I just learned how to take a screenshot on my iPhone 4GS. Aparently with iPhone firmware version 2.0, it changed. You push the “Home” and “Sleep” buttons at the same time. Don’t hold them, just press them. Your screen might [...]

This computer virus was a pain in the ass to get rid of. Why? Because malwarebytes didn’t find anything wrong with my computer. That’s a first from my experience. I Googled around and finally found something that removed it. It’s called TDSSKiller.exe from Kaspersky. You can download it here Turned out my issue was due [...]

I was trying to run a .bat file as administrator in Windows XP today and noticed that run as was not an option.  A quick Google turned up this fix. Copy the below to a notepad file Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\batfile\shell\runas\command] @=”\”%1\” %*” Save the notepad file as runas.reg for example.  The .reg [...]

I was recently troubleshooting a password issue and found this nice command for domain password and logon requirements for all domain accounts. Bring up the command prompt…type net accounts and hit enter. It was actually quite helpful finding out that my domain password policies weren’t being used.

I’m not sure why Microsoft keeps changing Microsoft Office activation.  Seriously, with every new version it really f#cking gets worse. I installed Microsoft Office 2010 a few weeks ago and it went smooth. I didn’t get anything regarding product activation because it was a volume license version, which makes complete sense. About 1 week later, [...]

Outlook 2000 – The view is damaged. Default view settings will be used. Had a user using this obsolete version of Outlook. I recreated the Outlook profile but that didn’t fix it. I Googled it and found a solution that worked for me. Here it is… Close out of Outlook Click Start Click Run Type [...]